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Guiterrez walks in his 2nd run on a full count near miss on the lower center part of the plate. His pitch count at 31, we see LHP Nick Bennett warming up in the Pen. Just an ugly ugly first frame for the Sounds - sloppy baseball. New pitcher scuffling. -
Facing ol' Brewers system legend, Cam Devanney and 25 pitches on his first inning count, Gutierrez drops a dime on the outer stripe for his 2nd out. Bases are juiced. 2 down. Gutierrez is struggling but Monasterio really let him down with that absurd high pop fly he let fall to the grass.
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Meanwhile, Monasterio and Young completely botch an absurdly high pop fly to shallow CF. THIS IS UGLY baseball early. Yuck.
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Gutierrez hangs a dead center slider for an easy poke to shallow left center and drives in the first run. Ugly pitch. Sounds trail 1-0.
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Augusta is on the board first with a double to the wall. Meanwhile Omaha just ripped a deep double over the wall in Right CF.
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Yhoswar Garcia singles to LF through the 3B/SS gap and then is nearly picked off 1B after standing on 2B and not seeing the 2B camped under the fly ball. On the very next batter, he's picked off 1B. Not a good way to follow up the Mudcats second hit of the evening. 0-0 into the bottom of the 3rd. Meanwhile Augusta gets their first knock - a single to RF - after Acosta failed to corral it sliding to his left. On the next pitch, a slider in the dirt, the same batter takes 2B easily.
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He gets the 2nd out with a broken bat flare to the shallow RF grass where old friend Jose Acosta successfully grabbed it with ease. He gets the 3rd out with a casual pop fly to CF and Yophery easily grabs it. Looking very sharp in every facet tonight for the young righty!
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3rd K for Rodriguez on an inside slider to get his first out in the 2nd frame. He is sitting 87-90 on his sinker with good depth and a very effective slider in the mix as his primary off-speed offering.
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Nicasia really putting together a nice AB here in the 7-spot as the DH. Takes the count full. Fouls off two consecutive. Then looked like he clearly check swung successfully on a change up down and in AND both the 1B coach and manager Nick Stanley came out to complain about the missed call. That was a good AB and likely should have been a free pass. Regardless, Mudcats hitless and scoreless through two innings.
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C David Garcia just attempted a 3B side bunt single. BUT, it was too close to the mound. Garcia was trucking and may have more athleticism than we knew coming into this season.
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RHP Manuel Rodriguez starts his evening with an 8 pitch K on a 90 mph heater with good run on the outer stripe for the swing and miss. He gets a pop out to 3B foul territory on 1 pitch for his second out. On a 2-2 pitch, Rodriguez grabs his 2nd K on an outer half sinker. A 1-2-3 inning and the Mudcats will bat again in the 2nd frame.
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Baez shallow pop out to the LF grass to Augusta SS. Yophery grounds out sharply to 2B. Tayden Hall stays red hot hitting a sharp liner to RF for a single. Guilarte grounds out sharply to 3B where they take the easy out nabbing Hall at 2B.
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Man, I am back in the Bizarro World of Rain Outs on my nights of reports. Come on nawwwwww!
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I'm sure I've missed some others in here in the lead-up but two of my favorite DL prospects came in for visits this past week so I am happy to bump this and share it here:
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Our first look @ recently acquired (claimed off waivers via the Marlins) RHP Vladimir Gutierrez in a Nashville Sounds jersey tonight as he takes the hill for game 1 vs 10-5 Omaha - the Triple-A affiliate of the suddenly surging KC Royals; first place in the International League West. LHP Nate Peterson will look to maintain his early season Double-A momentum for the Shuckers (5-4) as they take on the Reds Double-A affiliate Chattanooga Lookouts (3-5). And, RHP Patricio Aquino will look to build off his recent fantastic start at South Bend as the young Timber Rattlers (6-3) take on last year's Midwest League juggernaut Cedar Rapids Kernels (4-4). He'll be taking on Twins 2022 8th Rd pick, 23-year-old 6'5" RHP Zebby Mathews who is back for his second stint in the Midwest League. He went 5 scoreless, 8 K innings in his first start of 2024. 'Should' be an interesting contest! We don't know who is taking the hill for the upstart Mudcats, but, we do know manager Nick Stanley has his very young squad dealing quality of baseball well beyond the rosters' cumulative years:
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They were your 'Money Balls' in your Pitching Lab rack and you chose not to shoot them!
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A Jack proclaimed 'Minor League' expert and @Smichaelis9leaves out the incredibly impressive starts of RHP's Craig Yoho and Yerlin Rodriguez?! Shameful! I am aghast! We both know what we're watching there. And, as RHP Edwin Jimenez continues scuffling we may as well discuss the revamped and new version of RHP Yujanyer Herrera we are witnessing early in Carolina. Night and day difference between 2023/2024 in the very best of ways. Controlled and on the attack with purpose and massive break:
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Speaking of Boeve:
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Extremely fair and well-reasoned remarks. As per usual. Love your baseball brain.
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I completely forgot the 40-Man issues at stake w Wiemer. Thank you for that reminder - I almost always overlook this being deluged in the lower levels 😂. Again, thanks for that obvious facet of this I consistently overlook. AND, I just disagree on the surface number remarks re: Hicklen. What do I mean? When I watch Hicklen in the batters box, I see an extremely compact and powerful swing. Very fast hands, powerful flips of the wrists. Very consistent easy mechanics. I see a fantastic base. There is no wasted movement. He may not have Wiemer's inherent power but in Wiemer - a player I have been hyping since 2022 - I just see entirely too much all or nothing and entirely too much inconsistency. Being that I advocated for Blake Perkins before he even played an inning within the Brewers organization (Yankees scouting contact - close family friend) and continued to tout him much of last season as I watched him night in and night out, I am absolutely going to trust my eyes here. And, despite what the Statcast data says, at some point in time we all need to have a conversation on actual production and end results versus the over-investment on what the data says happened historically when we are basing absolutisms on not even a 9 year set of data criteria. I'm in no way shape or form dismissing the data. I am in no way shape or form ever going to over-invest in it.
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I think, perhaps, I have seen him top several dribblers foul and it is giving me PTSD from last summer's pre-injury funk? Thanks for the reminder. I think, perhaps even more pleasantly surprising (the OBP and BA seem to almost be foregone conclusions given he is healthy and his history) is his play at 3B. Not only has he looked quite comfy but the arm has been surprising. Much better pace than say a Metzinger whose arm never seemed adequate down the line.
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7 more SB for the T-Rats today. You have to love how aggressive Estevez has been with a lineup that lacks pop. The group is just scrapping and they play a very entertaining old school/new school blend of ball. 3B Mike Boeve is very quietly hitting 0.481 with a 1.019 OPS. He is really growing on me - he hasn't been driving the ball quite like I'd prefer to see but he is making many heady plays and executing smart AB's (another SF today) that. My concern currently falls to the wayside. RHP Craig Yoho and RHP Yerlin Rodriguez may be our most exciting relievers in the entire system right now. Very early, obviously, but both are killing it and looking electric in doing so.
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Zastryzny and Paredes have been phenomenal for the Sounds. Absolutely phenomenal. AND, I'm sorry, there is just no way in hyeck you can explain to me in any reasonable and rational way why Wiemer earned a call up over Hicklen. That is a pure prospect hype over actual production move and I am not a fan. Wiemer just did not earn the call. Hicklen absolutely did and continues to do so.
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That was just a huge series and performance by the young upstart Mudcats. Well done and major kudos to new manager Nick Stanley. Facing their arch nemesis of the past two seasons - an older and more experienced Down East squad - they take 5 of 6?
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Brewers (Hall) vs Orioles (Kremer): 4/13/24, 3:05pm
Joseph Zarr replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
Like I said...wasn't 110.
